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Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Andrew Palmer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-04-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Tur cAdin is a plateau skirted by the Upper Tigris in south-eastern Turkey. Syrian Orthodox Christians of Aramaic tongue still worship in its Late Antique churc
From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities
Language: en
Pages: 546
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Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-30 - Publisher: BRILL

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From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities provides twenty-five articles addressing the concept of centres and peripheries in the late antique
Envisioning Islam
Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: Michael Philip Penn
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-05 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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The first Christians to encounter Islam were not Latin-speakers from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speakers from Constantinople but Mesopotamian Christians
The Slow Disappearance of the Syriacs from Turkey and of the Grounds of the Mor Gabriel Monastery
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Pieter Omtzigt
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

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"This is an astonishing book which reveals the importance, relevance and the wider significance of Mor Gabriel Monastery not only for the Syriac Orthodox Church
The Church of the East
Language: en
Pages: 696
Authors: Christoph Baumer
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-05 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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The so-called 'Nestorian' Church (officially known as the Apostolic Assyrian Church of the East, with its See in Baghdad) was one of the most significant Christ
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